Northwest High School student assaulted by BB gun, results in school lockdown

6:09 PM,
Jan. 9, 2013

Northwest High School.

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Spotting a suspicious person carrying a gun near a school is enough to frighten anyone - especially now, just weeks after last month's mass murder at a school in Newtown, Conn.

And that's exactly the report that came to Indianapolis Public Schools police about 9:45 a.m. Wednesday, when they were paged with a description of four people running across the campus of Northwest High School. One, witnesses said, appeared armed.

"We took it very seriously," said Steven Garner, chief of IPS police. "Everyone's on high alert to begin with, and we're going to protect every facility and these students ...